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Computer programming

Definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming)

Computer programming (often shortened to programming) is the comprehensive process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable programs. It involves activities such as analysis, understanding, and generically solving such problems resulting in an algorithm, verification of requirements of the algorithm including its correctness and its resource consumption, implementation (or coding) of the algorithm in a target programming language, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code, implementation of the build system and management of derived artefacts such as machine code of computer programs. (Wikipedia)

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Activities
N/AComputer science
Computers

This term is used for the following terms: 
Programming

Approved Date
30-Oct-2013

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